.NET Core Job Trends in England

.NET Core
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring .NET Core skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 246 364 208
Rank change year-on-year +118 -156 -61
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 768 307 906
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.77% 0.71% 1.32%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.24% 4.00% 6.21%
Number of salaries quoted 712 278 690
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +13.04% -4.17%
75th Percentile £71,250 £83,438 £71,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £106,250 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +13.04% -4.17%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

.NET Core falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 10,601 7,670 14,601
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.59% 17.68% 21.20%
Number of salaries quoted 7,808 5,067 9,770
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -3.70%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing .NET Core relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

.NET Core job vacancy trend in England

.NET Core
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core

.NET Core
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Core in England over the 6 months to 13 September 2026.

Salary histogram for .NET Core in England

.NET Core
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Core within the England region over the 6 months to 13 September 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +111 197 £55,000 -2.22% 54
North of England +37 180 £55,000 -8.33% 51
East of England +67 115 £60,000 +20.00% 28
Midlands +28 101 £55,000 -8.33% 28
London -89 95 £78,750 - 107
South West -20 77 £52,500 +5.00% 17
North East +5 76 £65,000 +30.00% 10
North West +4 67 £52,500 -12.50% 31
West Midlands +8 59 £55,000 -8.33% 18
East Midlands +4 42 £50,000 -16.67% 10
Yorkshire -24 37 £47,500 -20.83% 11
.NET Core
UK

.NET Core
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 24 (3.13%) SharePoint
2 13 (1.69%) IIS
3 7 (0.91%) Confluence
4 5 (0.65%) CMS
5 4 (0.52%) Sitecore CMS
5 4 (0.52%) Umbraco
6 3 (0.39%) DNN
6 3 (0.39%) EPiServer
6 3 (0.39%) Immediacy CMS
6 3 (0.39%) Kentico
6 3 (0.39%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 7 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.26%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.26%) Sage 200
2 1 (0.13%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.13%) Magento
2 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.13%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 629 (81.90%) Azure
2 216 (28.13%) Azure DevOps
3 148 (19.27%) GitHub
4 132 (17.19%) GitHub Copilot
5 131 (17.06%) AWS
6 130 (16.93%) Azure AI
7 75 (9.77%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 42 (5.47%) Power Platform
9 41 (5.34%) Azure Logic Apps
10 33 (4.30%) Power Automate
11 30 (3.91%) Azure Service Bus
12 29 (3.78%) PowerApps
13 26 (3.39%) Azure Monitor
14 21 (2.73%) Azure Key Vault
15 20 (2.60%) Microsoft 365
16 19 (2.47%) SaaS
17 17 (2.21%) Azure Data Factory
17 17 (2.21%) Google Play
17 17 (2.21%) OneDrive
17 17 (2.21%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 45 (5.86%) Internet
2 6 (0.78%) Hyperconnected
3 3 (0.39%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.26%) Firewall
5 1 (0.13%) HTTP
5 1 (0.13%) Network Security
5 1 (0.13%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 432 (56.25%) Azure SQL Database
2 360 (46.88%) MongoDB
3 150 (19.53%) Elasticsearch
4 145 (18.88%) SQL Server
5 34 (4.43%) Power BI
6 24 (3.13%) Relational Database
7 20 (2.60%) MySQL
8 17 (2.21%) PostgreSQL
9 11 (1.43%) NonStop SQL
9 11 (1.43%) Redis
9 11 (1.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 9 (1.17%) NoSQL
11 8 (1.04%) Amazon RDS
12 7 (0.91%) Geospatial Data
12 7 (0.91%) GIS
13 4 (0.52%) Data Warehouse
14 3 (0.39%) Crystal Reports
14 3 (0.39%) ZAP BI
15 1 (0.13%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 70 (9.11%) Git
2 14 (1.82%) JIRA
2 14 (1.82%) NUnit
3 10 (1.30%) GitLab
4 9 (1.17%) Visual Studio
5 7 (0.91%) MSI
6 6 (0.78%) Jenkins
7 5 (0.65%) Cypress.io
7 5 (0.65%) Postman
7 5 (0.65%) Snyk
7 5 (0.65%) TeamCity
8 3 (0.39%) Claude Code
8 3 (0.39%) JUnit
8 3 (0.39%) Selenium
8 3 (0.39%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.13%) Vite
General
1 112 (14.58%) Finance
2 81 (10.55%) Social Skills
3 54 (7.03%) Advertising
4 42 (5.47%) Games
5 38 (4.95%) Marketing
6 33 (4.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 32 (4.17%) Retail
8 30 (3.91%) Analytical Skills
9 24 (3.13%) Public Sector
10 20 (2.60%) Law
11 14 (1.82%) Aerospace
11 14 (1.82%) Banking
12 11 (1.43%) Legal
12 11 (1.43%) Music Industry
13 8 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (0.91%) Automotive
15 5 (0.65%) Local Government
16 4 (0.52%) Electronics
16 4 (0.52%) Front Office
16 4 (0.52%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 653 (85.03%) Developer
2 520 (67.71%) .NET Developer
3 102 (13.28%) Senior
4 85 (11.07%) Software Developer
5 72 (9.38%) Senior Developer
6 60 (7.81%) C# Developer
7 53 (6.90%) Lead
8 46 (5.99%) C# .NET Developer
9 43 (5.60%) Full-Stack Developer
10 35 (4.56%) Lead Developer
11 32 (4.17%) Software Engineer
12 28 (3.65%) .NET Software Developer
13 26 (3.39%) Senior C# Developer
14 23 (2.99%) Senior .NET Developer
14 23 (2.99%) Senior Software Developer
15 19 (2.47%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 18 (2.34%) C# Software Developer
16 18 (2.34%) Lead .NET Developer
17 17 (2.21%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
18 16 (2.08%) Senior C# .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 768 (100.00%) .NET
2 504 (65.63%) ASP.NET
3 436 (56.77%) ASP.NET Core
4 234 (30.47%) CSS
5 232 (30.21%) HTML
6 220 (28.65%) Entity Framework
7 210 (27.34%) Blazor
8 201 (26.17%) React
9 189 (24.61%) AngularJS
10 181 (23.57%) RESTful
11 167 (21.74%) ASP.NET Web API
11 167 (21.74%) Vue
12 151 (19.66%) Node.js
13 141 (18.36%) .NET Framework
14 127 (16.54%) ML.NET
15 107 (13.93%) LINQ
16 69 (8.98%) REST
17 49 (6.38%) JSON
18 34 (4.43%) WPF
19 26 (3.39%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 86 (11.20%) Greenfield Project
2 61 (7.94%) Enterprise Software
3 21 (2.73%) Legacy Systems
4 20 (2.60%) Mobile App
5 19 (2.47%) Digital TV
6 17 (2.21%) iPhone
7 16 (2.08%) Cloud Native
8 15 (1.95%) Product Ownership
9 14 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
10 12 (1.56%) Sports Betting
11 11 (1.43%) BBC
11 11 (1.43%) Social Media
12 10 (1.30%) Low-Code
12 10 (1.30%) Onboarding
12 10 (1.30%) Social Network
13 9 (1.17%) Hedge funds
13 9 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
14 7 (0.91%) Renewable Energy
14 7 (0.91%) Tandem
15 6 (0.78%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 25 (3.26%) Windows
2 17 (2.21%) Android
3 3 (0.39%) Linux
3 3 (0.39%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.26%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 508 (66.15%) Full-Stack Development
2 401 (52.21%) Agile
3 262 (34.11%) CI/CD
4 257 (33.46%) DevOps
5 208 (27.08%) Microservices
6 163 (21.22%) AI
7 145 (18.88%) Machine Learning
8 139 (18.10%) Multithreading
9 102 (13.28%) Scrum
10 86 (11.20%) Software Engineering
11 83 (10.81%) OO
12 82 (10.68%) TDD
13 66 (8.59%) BDD
14 62 (8.07%) Kanban
15 57 (7.42%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
16 56 (7.29%) User Experience
17 55 (7.16%) Problem-Solving
18 51 (6.64%) Mentoring
19 45 (5.86%) Business Intelligence
19 45 (5.86%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 714 (92.97%) C#
2 503 (65.49%) SQL
3 259 (33.72%) JavaScript
4 202 (26.30%) TypeScript
5 26 (3.39%) Python
6 25 (3.26%) PowerShell
7 13 (1.69%) T-SQL
8 12 (1.56%) Java
9 10 (1.30%) VBA
10 7 (0.91%) Bicep
11 5 (0.65%) Bash
12 4 (0.52%) Kotlin
12 4 (0.52%) Ruby
12 4 (0.52%) VB.NET
13 3 (0.39%) Go
13 3 (0.39%) VBScript
14 2 (0.26%) C
14 2 (0.26%) Dart
15 1 (0.13%) Delphi
15 1 (0.13%) PHP
Qualifications
1 62 (8.07%) Degree
2 28 (3.65%) SC Cleared
2 28 (3.65%) Security Cleared
3 23 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (1.04%) Master's Degree
5 6 (0.78%) AWS Certification
6 3 (0.39%) Azure Certification
6 3 (0.39%) ICAEW
6 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (0.39%) OCP
6 3 (0.39%) Oracle Certification
7 2 (0.26%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.13%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (3.91%) QA
2 25 (3.26%) Accessibility
3 7 (0.91%) NCSC
3 7 (0.91%) WCAG
4 3 (0.39%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.39%) GDPR
4 3 (0.39%) NIST
5 1 (0.13%) Basel III
5 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.13%) ITGC
5 1 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 186 (24.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 169 (22.01%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.39%) Ansible
2 3 (0.39%) Grafana
2 3 (0.39%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 504 (65.63%) Microsoft
2 51 (6.64%) Facebook
3 45 (5.86%) Google
4 21 (2.73%) YouTube
5 17 (2.21%) Adobe
6 11 (1.43%) Apple
6 11 (1.43%) Sony
6 11 (1.43%) Yahoo!
7 6 (0.78%) OpenAI
7 6 (0.78%) Red Hat
8 4 (0.52%) Sitecore
8 4 (0.52%) Workday
9 3 (0.39%) Alterian
9 3 (0.39%) CrowdStrike
9 3 (0.39%) Optimizely
9 3 (0.39%) Splunk
10 2 (0.26%) IFS
10 2 (0.26%) Oracle
10 2 (0.26%) Sage
10 2 (0.26%) Veracode